Compulsory Conscription

power works for his personal ends and takes no account of the public interest. And when another succeeds him, he tears down what the first built and begins anew, building for his own interest...

The army is to the homeland what the roof-tiles are to the building — it shields it against sudden storms.. but what use are

roof-tiles if there is no building?! The building must first be raised on sound and noble national foundations, before we think of compulsory conscription.'

... And I remembered that the lady I was speaking with is a poetess, so I reproached her for staying away from The Woman's Voice, and asked her to read us some new verse. She recited to us a stirring, magnificent poem of fervor which she had delivered some months earlier at the

American School for Girls, on the occasion of the Zionist aggression upon Palestine. And no wonder — for the anger and indignation in Dr. May Saadeh's tone speak for every zealous patriot after the shameful result to which the Arab governments have brought us...

I did not leave Dr. May Saadeh until I had taken from her a firm promise that she would continue her patriotic poetry in the maga-zine The Woman's Voice...

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